Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Matthias Andree
2005-12-08T08:29:18Z

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 06:29, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > What I'm saying is that people (maintainer) should have a selected
> > number of people (users) test the patches before they are merged.
>
> And we try. Take for example psmouse_resync patch that is now in -mm.
> I got about 30 reports that it worked and fixed people's problems before
> I got it to Andrew. And still as soon as it got to -mm I got a complaint
> that it failed on one of boxes ;(

The important thing is to get these failing boxes into the regular test
set. I know that's not always easy, because end users tend to go away as
soon as it works again for them.

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Matthias Andree